Six people legally living in the US and legally traveling for work were disappeared by the US government and the only reason we knew about it was because one woman was family friends with a county commissioner and her cell phone pinged to two detention centers.

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

Emmanuel Damas, a Boston resident and asylum seeker from Haiti who entered the United States legally, was killed by ICE. He leaves behind two sons.

This is a great overview from LUCE about how ICE is targeting immigrants in Massachusetts courtrooms. I have seen this firsthand and it's critical that we stop it. Visit LUCE's website to learn more and sign a petition in favor of legislation banning ICE courthouse arrests: www.lucemass.org/courts

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

We're looking forward to launching our Spring Forward speaker series! First up: Next Tuesday with Laura Rotolo of @aclum.bsky.social #mapoli actionnetwork.org/events/sprin...

Our trans friends and family don't deserve this discriminatory subjugation and neither does anyone else (but the GOP will definitely do it to whoever they feel like punishing, if they're not stopped).

this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default “I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

I had some stuff planned for today but had to pivot to a mental health salvage operation. (Nick’s Woods in Worcester, thx @gwlandtrust.bsky.social)

There was a very persistent lie that we told ourselves that Republicans weren't sincere in their faith, that they were just manipulating evangelicals for votes. But no, Mike Johnson genuinely wants all the Jews to return to Jerusalem to be murdered so that Abaddon can rise from his pit of locusts.

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

There have been lots of five alarm fires since January 20, 2025. The stripping of trans people’s rights to exist as full and equal citizens is one of them. bsky.app/profile/jess...

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

This is a starlight tour. This is murder.

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

No more snow, please!! This is the situation in my neighborhood this morning.

I've been an X-Files fan since my 4th grade classmate breathlessly described the escalator scene in "Squeeze" (S1, E3) to me in 1993 and I decided I had to start watching this awesome, scary new show. I could not be more excited to see what Ryan Coogler will create in this universe.

Stay safe today, neighbors! This weather-resistant hound dog wanted to go for his normal morning walk in the blizzard and it took a lot of bargaining to get him to do his business in our yard instead.

Massholes agree that a giant bucket of iced coffee is the perfect beverage to enjoy during a historic blizzard

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

pov you are scrolling through a paper on a newly-described silurian galeaspid and you see this magnificent life reconstruction

Parts of Worcester definitely sit at the intersection of the two. You might miss a turn and find yourself on a derelict road at a non-Euclidean incline through a land once formally deeded to God that He appears to have since forsaken, but it will eventually lead you to Dunkin.

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Discord: You'll need to supply to age verification if you want access to certain features. Users: Hang on, wasn't there a thing in October where user ID data was leaked? Discord: Ok, yes, but the chances of that happening again are-- **one week later**

People have been disappeared from MA jails for years. This isn't new. It's just happening more often to more categories of people. When presumed-innocent people are kidnapped by ICE after loved ones post bail, state court judges issue warrants for "failure to apoear" -- that is also violence.

this is how i witnessed an ICE kidnapping in western mass, i paid a $250 bail for a woman accused of trespassing (right...) and ICE snatched her as soon as we got out the door

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Healey saying Congress should defund ICE doesn't matter much because she's not a member of Congress nor is she running to become one. This is what matters.

I look forward to the memes that will be made from this excellent photo

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

I dream of a Massachusetts whose identity is more closely tied to the polar seltzer family of delightful products than Dunkin

The sun came out so I hit the trails in my new snowshoes! (Moore State Park in Paxton, MA)

had a very respectful chat about theology tonight

I’m reading Cuckoo by local legend @scumbelievable.bsky.social and it has the un-put-downable quality that Stephen King books had in my 13-year-old hands; highly recommend for all horror fans.

Thank you immensely @andrewjmarsh.bsky.social for this powerful beautiful analysis in @billshaner.bsky.social’s Worcester Sucks. ❤️ www.worcestersucks.email/p/criminaliz...

timeline cleanse, tardigrade edition

for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built: (from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)

Not a single police officer was assaulted on Eureka St Meanwhile, the police collaborated with fascist scum to abduct people and used a child as bait to do so And now we've got this precedent that only aids in collaborator 'peacekeeping'

#Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, who is up for reelection this year, will forcefully criticize ICE and the Trump administration—what she won't do is stop working with them. My latest for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Hell World. #mapoli

On one side we have a dedicated community organizer with six months probation and on the other side we have a police dept spending two days showing us they collaborated with ICE, will do so in the future, don’t follow their own use of force policies, don’t know what de-escalation means don’t care

collaborators suddenly realize that they could cancel their contract for a concentration camp after insisting it wasn’t possible. a world of fascists who have never felt pushback once in their life, suddenly stunned to see everyone hates them. makes you think! kansascitydefender.com/justice/plat...